hood, texas, and one or two other places. but you know, these have been relatively small-scale attacks. they have been tragedies individually, but they haven't been catastrophic attacks as we saw on 9/11, and i don't think there's any likelihood that al qaeda's able to pull anything remotely like that from now on going forward. it's an organization under tremendous pressure that has lost almost all of its leadership, and that's true not just of the central organization but of many of the affiliate organizations. that said, we have had prison breaks in iraq and in libya and in pakistan over the past several months and militants, senior militants from these groups have got out, and certainly, they'll be looking for attacks, at least against american targets in those countries. >> cnn national security analyst peter bergen, thank you. >>> chaos on l.a.'s venice beach. a driver speeds through the crowded boardwalk, leaving one person dead. was this an accident or was it a plot to kill? did you know, your eyes can lose vital nutri